* Mar 11 through Mar 15 - Polity Petitioning
Last fall the first two Asian Ams were elected to the Cabinet in SBU's history. If you want to run for office for next year you must carry a petition now!
* Mar 15 - The Color of Fear
An intense film on race - 8 men - 2 Whites, 2 Blacks, 2 Latinos, and 2 Asian Americans in a discussion that makes you angry, makes you cry, makes you hopeful, makes you wonder why....  NOT TO BE MISSED!  Alliance Room, Campus Life Time. Seating Limited.  Lunch Served.

* Mar 21- Global Feminisms: New Directions for Discourse  All day conference in the Alliance Room at SBU with Rey Chow, Sangeeta Ray, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Betty Joseph, and Sneja Gunew
FREE - Register Now
* Mar 30 - Du Tu Le's Poetry Night
Saturday, 6:30pm, Adelphi
* April 6-7 - OCA 2002 Northeast Regional Asian American College Leadership Training Conference this year at SBU!  High school seniors entering college next year welcome too!  FREE - Register online NOW!

* "Sarah Hughes Good as Gold...
       American Beats Kwan and Slutskaya."
             Seattle News
* "I have nothing against Chinese.  I just don't want so many of them in my building." 

On Tuesday, March 5th, CAAAV demonstrated against one of Chinatown's most racist landlords.  Read about CAAAV, the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, and listen to CAAAV volunteer and SBU student Fen Z Nie in streaming video using Media Player** talk to E-Zine Interviewer Kimmie Chin about what she does, fighting for low income tenants forced to give up their homes in the gentrification of Chinatown. 
* Conservative Columnist's Racial Attack Against Secretary Norman Mineta
Read full story in Protests below.
* Special Series: Redistricting
It's Impact On Asian Americans and NYC 
Part 1: The Plan to Split the Asian Vote

Reel Time
March 13th - 6:45 & 9:30pm Complete and Uncut Once Upon A Time In China Cinema Arts Center, Huntington or see Calendar for details DISCOUNT: Say you heard about it on AA E-Zine and get in at member's price Monsoon Wedding was given two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper. When the e-zine draft was written we looked at the listings and asked "so how many theatres do you think are showing it in Suffolk County, where SBU is located? If you guessed 0 - you were right! But we are happy to announce that Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington is not only showing Monsoon Wedding beginning March 15th, but anyone saying they read about any film at CAC from AA E-Zine gets in at member's price - $5 at all times!
Reel Time A real reel from China circa 2002!		IN STREAMING VIDEO Using Quicktime** Kimmie Chin interviewing China's top grossing director, Feng Xiaogang, and producer, Lu Guochiang at MADE IN CHINA Celebration of Chinese Cinema at Cinema Arts Centre
LAGAAN Wins Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Film Only the third Indian film ever nominated Available at local video stores

Website of the Week

SBU student Chi Gao's site designed to showcase the work of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban
* Previous Sites of the Week
* Permanent Websites of the Week
Keeping you up to date on APA news and events
Asian Week     |     Political Circus

*  SBU's First Asian Am E-Zine: About Us
*  Name This E-Zine Contest - CASH PRIZE

12 March 2002.  Volume 1, Number 5.
This publication will be distributed on line weekly to members of the SBU community. To be put on the mailing list send an email to aaezine@aa2sbu.org or educasia@ic.sunysb.edu.  Please see the privacy policy. Your email address will not be given out to anyone without your permission.
Editor: Antonio Wong
Features Editor: Queenie Law
Interview Editor: Kimmie Chin
News Editor: Kevin Quan
Photography Editor: Danny Minchala
Columnists: Evelyn Shah
Contributors / Writers: Kandie Au, Elizabeth Hwang, Janet Lee, Jack Liu, Rose Ubarra
Business Manager: Sherry Ha
Webmaster: Tuan Duc Le
Alumni / Staff Advisors / Contributors: Stanley Liang, Dawn Liu, Norm Prusslin, Paul St. Denis, Ja Young

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Paul St. Denis of CELT, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, based in the Melville Library, for teaching us streaming video, and especially for his willingness to go above and beyond to make SBU a better environment for students!

**STREAMING VIDEO:  Download Quicktime here, but please remember, when it asks if you want all of your images (jpegs, gifs, etc.) in Quicktime, uncheck that box.  Quicktime works on Apples and PCs.  Download Windows Media Player here.  It comes with Windows but you can also get a version for Apple, Palm, etc.